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Life On Earth Might Not Be So Special After All

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-life-Jim-but-not-as-we-know-it dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"What If We Have Completely Misunderstood Our Place in the Universe ? A Harvard astronomer has a provocative hunch about what happened after the Big Bang. Our universe is about 13 billion years old, and for roughly 3.5 billion of those years, life has been wriggling all over our planet. But what was going on in the universe before that time ? It's possible that there was a period shortly after the Big Bang when the entire universe was teeming with life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb calls this period the 'habitable epoch,' and he believes that its existence changes how humans should understand our place in the cosmos. The full article is here"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by mmcmonster on Monday March 03 2014, @10:10AM

    by mmcmonster (401) on Monday March 03 2014, @10:10AM (#10037)

    The other thought is that due to the rampant energy use current, post-cataclysmic event energy may not be nearly as freely available as it is now.

    How would society evolve now if 10,000 years ago the world's oil, rare earth elements, and easily reachable radioactive element supplies were used up creating a doomsday weapon?

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  • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Tuesday March 04 2014, @09:06AM

    by evilviper (1760) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @09:06AM (#10584) Journal

    post-cataclysmic event energy may not be nearly as freely available as it is now.

    If we have enough sunlight that the planet is not in the worst ice age ever, we have LOTS of power. Mirrors + water + turbines + wire == lots of electricity. Without sunlight, wind power would do well, and keep us from freezing.

    Once you've figured out that whole theory of electromagnetics thing, (and SOMEBODY will remember), it's pretty damn easy to start over from there. Once you know what IS possible, and the basics of what's needed to get there, it doesn't take much effort to start again, and tackle the low-hanging fruit that will save profound amounts of labor right away.

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